Persio / tradotto in verso sciolto e dichiarato da Francesco Stelluti.

Roma : G. Mascardi, 1630.

12 unnumbered leaves, 218 pages, 11 unnumbered leaves (last blank) : engr. title page, illustrations, & portrait ; (4to)

Latin text with Italian translation of the six books of the satires.

Stelluti was a prominent member of the first Accademia dei Lincei at Rome. In 1625 its founder, Prince Federigo Cesi, published at Rome his Apiarium containing a plate, measuring 14.5 in. by 10.5 in., which illustrates bees as observed by Stelluti under the microscope. Only two copies of this, the earliest printed microscopical illustration, have survived, but the individual drawings were republished by Stelluti in this work. See C. Singer, Endeavour, 1953, xii, 197-201.

Includes indexes.

Copy 1. Bound in 18th century parchment.

Copy 2. Bound in 19th century blind-tooled calf, gold lettering and fillets on spine.